Linus Torvalds Announces Release of Linux 3.9
Following what Linus Torvalds called a "very quiet" week, the Finnish American open-source software guru officially released the Linux 3.9 kernel. The latest kernel had been in development for 10 weeks and includes a device mapper target that allows a user to configure a solid state drive (SSD) as a cache for hard disk drives (HDDs) to increase system performance.
The release comes a week later than Torvalds would have liked, though he seemed more concerned with people trying to "game the system" than with the slight delay.
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"So the last week was much quieter than the preceding ones, which makes me suspect that one reason -rc7 was bigger than I liked was that people were gaming the system and had timed some of their pull requests for just before the release, explaining why -rc7 was big enough that I didn't actually want to do a final release last week. Please don't do that," Torvalds stated in his official announcement.
There's quite a bit that's new and/or improved in Linux 3.9, including improved support for the F2FS (Flash Friendly File System) file system for Samsung developers, improved ARM support, a Zero-Power optical device driver, audio and sound improvements, initial support for AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics cards, better power management, faster LZO compression, experimental RAID 5/6 support for the Btrfs file system, and more.
The release comes a week later than Torvalds would have liked, though he seemed more concerned with people trying to "game the system" than with the slight delay.
Image Source: Flickr (LuChOeDu)
"So the last week was much quieter than the preceding ones, which makes me suspect that one reason -rc7 was bigger than I liked was that people were gaming the system and had timed some of their pull requests for just before the release, explaining why -rc7 was big enough that I didn't actually want to do a final release last week. Please don't do that," Torvalds stated in his official announcement.
There's quite a bit that's new and/or improved in Linux 3.9, including improved support for the F2FS (Flash Friendly File System) file system for Samsung developers, improved ARM support, a Zero-Power optical device driver, audio and sound improvements, initial support for AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics cards, better power management, faster LZO compression, experimental RAID 5/6 support for the Btrfs file system, and more.
